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Following a jury trial defendant was convicted of conspiracy to sell amphetamines and possession of a firearm by a felon and sentenced to state prison. Defendant appeals from the judgment of conviction.

On or about June 29, 1973, Walker Levon Granger met Donald Lawrence Mansfield and Henry Washington Davis and told them he wanted to buy five kegs (a keg contains 50 jars of 1,000 pills each) of amphetamines. Unknown to Mansfield and Davis, Granger had been arrested two months earlier and was then cooperating with the police. Negotiations continued for several days, Mansfield stating he was in contact with a person named Larry who would supply the drugs. The price was set at $53 per jar, or a total of $13,250. Granger reported all of this to the police who instructed him on how to proceed.

Ultimately Granger and Mansfield agreed that the exchange would take place in a motel room. On July 2, 1973, at 11:30 p.m. Granger and Officer Gaunt, who had represented himself as Granger’s partner, were waiting in the motel room and other officers were in an adjoining room when Mansfield and Davis arrived. The money to purchase the drugs, about $15,000, was counted and Mansfield went…